International assistance, along with the implementation of health and social sector reforms developed by Venezuelans, themselves, will be required to alleviate the shortages of medicines and medical supplies, failing public health infrastructure, and chronic food insecurity...

On September 5, the Levada Center, Russia’s only independent pollster, became the 141st organization included on the Russian government’s registry of “foreign agents.” This decision was taken only two weeks before Russia’s parliamentary...

In June 2015, the U.S. government discovered something horrifying: The Office of Personnel Management had been hacked by China. The attackers had stolen the Social Security numbers, performance ratings and job assignments of millions of current and former federal...

Digital communications have bridged the enormous physical distance between the US and Australia, enabling people on both sides of the Pacific to take advantage of innovative technologies and services. The growing opportunities for trans-Pacific digital trade prompted the...

Across the globe, financial losses due to cybercrime continue to mount. Estimates of the cost of cybercrime to the Asia–Pacific vary, but suggested figures of about US$81 billionimply that it’s a bigger problem than any one country can address on its own. For the...

The Asia–Pacific’s digital potential offers enormous development and trade opportunities that, if effectively harnessed, will benefit the economies of Australia and the United States. Indeed, the region’s increasing importance to the economic and strategic interests of...

“Ending preventable maternal and child death is an admirable goal that we can all be proud of….But we need to get to a place as a country where we view this goal with the same commitment and determination as when we went to the moon.” That powerful message was...

Health and migration experts are calling for policies that support and integrate the flood of displaced people worldwide, but many countries instead are becoming more restrictive. That trend, they said, threatens not only the future of those on the move, but also potentially...

Nigeria, Africa’s largest nation by population, has some of the worst maternal health indicators in the world. The Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) stands at 576 per 100,000 live births (Demographic and Health Survey 2013). To put it differently, Nigeria has 2 per cent of...

August 30, 2016
| Nellie BristolFrom Smart Global HealthThe recently discovered wild poliovirus outbreak in Nigeria shows the wisdom of waiting three years after the last polio case before a region is certified as polio free, but also points to the difficulties in resisting complacency during that period. Just past the two-year...

This week, China launched its first quantum communications satellite. While this event is an important step for quantum communication research, media and news coverage of the launch mischaracterize the field of quantum computing. In this post I explain common misconceptions...